Since the early days of human space exploration, the endeavor has been haunted by a very good question: why spend so much on ...

EVE Frontier' developers Helgi Freyr Rúnarsson and Guðlaugur Jóhannesson talk galaxy merger models, black holes, and the thin ...

Gaganyaan astronaut-designates highlighted India's growing space ecosystem, powered by collaboration between government, ...

Scientists are steadily ruling out habitable conditions on the seven planets of the star Trappist-1. On one of the worlds, a ...

Novel materials have a wide array of potential scientific applications, and these honorees have prototypes that could wind up ...

Separately, the NASA program of humans in space began as a cold war effort but has evolved significantly, especially since the end of the Shuttle era. The short-term goal for humans is embodied in the ...

Stem cell aging is potentially worrisome because it diminishes the body’s natural ability to repair tissues and organs.

The Viking missions paved the way for future Mars missions and helped researchers understand the red planet’s climate and ...

NASA’s Dragonfly mission has cleared several key design, development and testing milestones and remains on track toward ...

For a century, it worked, and brilliantly. The “California model” rested on massive investments in higher education, ...

New research shows spaceflight accelerates the aging of blood-forming stem cells, with samples from four SpaceX missions to ...

Earth has experienced this since its birth, 4.5 billion years ago; gravitational waves have existed since the beginning of ...